A brief biography of Elisabeth Elliot “She is no fool who gives what she cannot keep to gain what she cannot lose.” English Meeting - Sunday 29th August, 2021 Brussels, Belgium - where Elisabeth was born to missionary parents Family devotions A difficult time… 5 long years of uncertainty. Ecuador - The Amazon Basin The famously colourful Colorados Indians of Ecuador Finally! Married in 1953 Smoked fish, monkey meat and manioc (root vegetable) were staples. Jim and Elizabeth lived at Shandia. Shell Oil Company built a settlement near Waorani territory. Jim and Elisabeth with some of the other missionaries preparing to make contact with the Waorani tribe. Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) planes taking supplies to remote areas. Nate Saint and his plane before a ‘gift drop’ A gift in return! 1955 Welcoming little Valarie into the world! View of a Waorani settlement from the MAF plane. Contact made! The recovery mission - finding the bodies of the 5 men. The 5 wives waiting for news. Photo published in Life Magazine. “Sometimes life is so hard you can only do the next thing. Whatever that is just do the next thing. God will meet you there.” Jim and Elizabeth lived at Shandia. The 5 men were killed at ‘Palm Beach’ The Waorani territory was near Tiwaenu The Miracle! Elisabeth and Val with the two women who walked out of the jungle. Honorario - speared by the Waorani The Waorani Tribe Known and feared for their high rate of homicide Hours of language learning Valarie at ease in the jungle eating manioc in their bamboo home with no walls. Endless language work - Elisabeth and Rachel compiling their notes “I killed your husband. I didn’t live thoughtfully then. But now we know…. You are now my younger sister and your mother is my mother. Will you tell them that I call them family?” - Mincaye The Loneliness Rachel Saint lived the rest of her days with the Waorani people. “He does not say to us ever, ‘here it is’ but rather, ‘here am I, fear not’.” Speaking to Uni Students 1969 Elisabeth marries Addison Leitch Through the years... Elisabeth wrote over 25 books in her lifetime New Testament in Waorani language. Baptism gathering of the Waorani people “Lord show me what you want me to do. And in that is acceptance, I will obey. There is peace.” Elisabeth and her daughter Valarie. “The Kingdom of God is like leaven and seed. Things which work silently, secretly, slowly. But there is in them an incalculable, transforming power. Even in the plain soil even in the dullest dough lies the possibility of transformation.” Elisabeth Elliot 1926-2015.